Transition of power in decades also coming out italian Prime Minister how will a gentle go new sets march fourth as the date for a National Election after president. Dissolved parliament in the latest from wall plots carnage in kabul multiple blast rocked the Afghan Capital a Suicide Attack on a shia Cultural Center and a media outlet killed dozens. And a portrait of an artist will take a look at an animated film called Loving Vincent its the story of the great painter Vincent Van Gogh sixty thousand images just like these were painted in van goghs distinctive style by a hundred artists roll around the globe. And sarah horan welcome to the show former soccer star george wayi has won liberias president ial election provisional results show way out taking about sixty one percent of the vote to defeat Vice President joseph. Whist supporters in the capital city of monrovia have been cheering for his victory at fifty one year old be sworn in next month in whats said to be the countrys first democratic transition of power in more than seventy years. Correspondent evelyn putting. In monrovia Forrest Evelyn why do you think people in liberia voted. Well the language since they cant be in has been a change shes from a units impacted government to a new government that has been in one week since the start of company days the need to change the unity of parties so it has really been a trouble for Vice President yourself so that is the online you factor not another unity party and one of the Biggest Challenges that hall now be facing as president. We are has a huge challenge your jalapeno especially when we talk about you when you plug mint and job creation that country is to challenge with the high you for your comments and the issue of poverty over eighty percent of the countrys population still leer live below a dollar a day so judge we government to have this as a reason not to crack liberating a country from poverty which many believe he i mean is just in the president has not really been able to adequately address since her two six years of twelve years he toured to. Where was a football star in the ninetys he played for italys ac milan do you think hes going to succeed as a politician. We know he has not had experiences in politics for the time he started it just football a lot of people have know he. Could go but others are saying im listening to country to say heres some stars could be tired around the people he puts in his government the people he gets appointed into different positions and ministers an agency who are going to make the work happy so simply people could see it could be possible he has a successful government just depending on who reports it what position. Thank you thats evelyn. And library. Well george brad grew up in a slum of the capital monrovia he went home and they held a star Soccer Player for clubs in italy france and england after retirement he got involved in liberias politics making his first bid for the presidency in two thousand and five he says alexion straw it cost him the race but he didnt give up. It was on three ball pitches like this where liberias most famous son forged his reputation as a winner. George will began breaking the mold in his early twentys when he left war torn west africa to score goals for europes elite clubs. He never lost touch with home. Too. Almost. All of us are friends. As well as winning a slew of Team Trophies she became the first african to win the prestigious balon dog. After a life in football where turned his attention from the paper to politics tasting his first defeat in the two thousand and five president ial election. But as a footballing superstar standing out from the crowd came easily a decade later his time had come. When the. Bird flu on the political. Side of preparation that was marred when he chose the wife of x. President and now convicted war criminal trials taylor as his running mate it triggered accusations that taylor who were destroying sin Wears Campaign for liberians grateful for peace but desperate for work it didnt seem to matter come polling day where again was confident his promise of routes jobs and prosperity was enough. Im not as though a loser to do this. They said to go away in. Old habits die hard no fifty one george where is watching the goals go in. But he keeps making history of his own becoming the first liberian president to take power democratically since one thousand nine hundred forty four. Italian government says the country will hold a general election on march fourth of next year the president has dissolved parliament to make way for the vote earlier Prime Minister paolo gentil llano defended his governments record and said he would stay in office until a new government is in place the election is set to be a three way contest between gentle honest. Scares me Democratic Party the populist five Star Movement and alliance headed by former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi. Lets go to philip willing in rome philip promise been dissolved a new election is going to be held in march was this expected. Yes this is part of an orderly transition phase the rough date of the dissolution of parliament. And out some weeks ago the date of the fourth of march was already penciled in in many calendars and in particular the desire is to avoid dragging out the legislature to the bitter end with the risk that the government could lose a confidence vote in parliament and therefore be you know weak a position or a caretaker role that particularly if theres no knee bend uncertain outcome from the election three main competing groups in roughly the same number of votes or what happens next fall apart we go from here. Well i think well see a very likely Election Campaigns. Several months or italian politicians to offer their burying formula as to the electorate and theres been really an Election Campaign dragging on for many months now with the legislature. Moving towards its end and already were seeing some fairly populist. Promises from people such as prime if own Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi and from the five Star Movement universal wage for poor people in italy and other sort of sweetness of the electorate and their questions about toward extent the country could afford these measures former Prime Minister matteo renzi responding at various going to lee saying that the country would be bankrupt if his rivals won by thats philip well in reporting for us from wrong thanks very much it doesnt have been killed in a Suicide Attack in kabul socalled Islamic State claimed responsibility multiple bomb struck a shia Cultural Center and a media outlet at least forty one people were killed dozens more were injured security challenges continue to plague afghanistan and recently theres been an uptick in i asked attacks against shia targets in the country. They searched through the rubble for signs of their loved ones. But after the force of the explosion little was left behind inside the shiite social and Cultural Center. The bomb went off inside this building that is also home to an afghan you say agency. That i love ok when the explosion went off we skate from the island and we were working and went to the rough talk we saw the smoke and flames coming from my basement and went to help and see what was happening there when we got there the situation was very hard to devise a class of students had been marking the anniversary of the soviet invasion of sunni majority afghanistan when the blast tore through the building eyewitnesses describe several explosions on the compound. While we were moving the wounded to the hospital a second explosion went off here if you minutes later. On the film for two or three with. The injured were brought to nearby hospitals with several wounded taken in for surgery on. The well. So i was there for a book returning fire during the talk there was a huge bang so the infidel and smoke rose from inside the hole as well to get. My face was burning. I fell off my chair and i saw other colleagues around me on the ground although the smoke was everywhere that i dont know what happened next. And what they go on after minimal. Armed guards patrol the area where the explosions happened so called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack afghan pres. Didnt ashraf ghani called it an unpardonable crime against humanity he pledged to destroy terrorist groups. Youre watching did i mean news still to come on our program priceless paintings by the artist Vincent Van Gogh brought to life for a new movie ill take you behind the scenes to discover how the film Loving Vincent was made. But first china is spending nine hundred billion euros in the worlds biggest Infrastructure Project and daniel youve been following for us thats right sar all this week were taking a look at the new silk road that chinas attempt to revive a one thousand draw trade route to do that theyre investing hundreds of billions of dollars in pauls railways roads and bridges across asia africa and europe today were at the greek port of parade us last year chinas state owned shipping a majestic from costco spent over two hundred eighty Million Viewers on a majority stake in the port theyre due to pour another three hundred fifty million into the Port Infrastructure in the next decade for the greeks Chinese Investment is paying off telecoms giants like said and huawei from china as well as americas shooter packet are using pariahs as a gateway for their products for traffic volumes are twenty percent up year on year. This is the port of parade yes since chinese shipping giant costco took over the port has been an operation twenty four hours a day freight volumes are four times what they used to be and one of the two container piers is being extended costcos plan to turn pariahs into a gateway to europe is well underway its local executives are upbeat so far paramus is the only large private sector project making headway in greece but it is will be the first at that on an up. And very big this to be assessed and they make that out now and we hope to be offset of this the sense that this if you think of us from buy up by. Companies like sony and Hewlett Packard ship their products from paris to eastern europe. Costco has invested a billion euros in the container terminal. The Passenger Terminal is next on the agenda already the largest in europe its going to get even bigger along with a massive facelift. Old warehouses are also being converted. Are that get these to be below four and five star hotels that we did not have maybe you know you can see by getting them to provide good he said he said he sees we thought there i muse ment area areas like restaurant cafeterias costco also wants to attract Cruise Ship Passengers primarily from china and paramus would be more than just a flying visit costco wants it to become home base for the luxury liners big plans but the unions are skeptical they fear costco is farming out contracts to subcontractors and working conditions will be undermined in a few me off the wall its an important question is that and if necessary well go on strike yet we want a collective agreement and long term secure jobs thats what we demand from costco and also from our government. As part of the deal with the greek government costco has to invest three hundred fifty Million Euros and perea sarber over the next ten years its hoped the district around the harbor will also benefit and greece certainly needs the kind of economic stimulus the chinese hope their vision for brass will deliver. Venezuela sits atop the Worlds Largest oil reserves but the plummeting crude price and gross mismanagement by the government has crippled the countrys economy inflation is sky high two thousand percent this past year hundreds of thousands of venezuelans are leaving the country and trying to make it elsewhere some are cashing in with Creative Ideas even that cant pull them out of desperate poverty. Yes just taking the bus not to work though sadly his work is on the bus his selling money worthless money from his homeland of when this oil and. They get it do you know what i can buy with this absolutely nothing gentleman. Having a drop in minnesota elias jorge did this not enough to feed a family with seven years when salary is forty thousand dollars a week that doesnt buy much today a pound of sugar costs more than twice as much. Because they left his country for neighboring colombia and is now panhandling on buses in bogota he explains his countrys economic plight to local commuters hoping to store their horace. I left my country with two million body of ours when i arrived at the border they would only give me sixty thousand pesos for it twenty dollars so i decided to bring them here instead to bogota and give them away so that people can give me whatever they feel in their hearts i do it because i have three beautiful children i have a family have to do something to feed them up with. The concept works call him makes a few bucks every day and manages to send some money back home meanwhile the crisis there affects the neighbors across the western border colombia has its own economic problems and its facing a larger influx of migrants than the country has ever seen before were going in there are a lot of people in the cities where there are issues with lack of lodging lack of schools its a challenge you can imagine that if the colombian population already has problems accessing basic services if six hundred thousand more people arrive its very difficult yallop of those who call them young or. Difficult but still better than in venezuela for jorge got here yes thats all that matters. Now the United Nations has issued a stark reminder. Some of the horrors some children still face in the world so lets write down such an important story in the u. N. Is saying that children who live in conflict zones around the world are being deliberately targeted and exposed to attacks in a statement the uns childrens Agency Unicef called the scale of attacks on children this year quote shocking agency said the children were subject to rapes forced marriages of duction were even used as human shields in conflicts from syria to yemen to myanmar and nigeria. Here and wire is with unicef he joins us now from new york kiran whats stunning about this is that it appears children have absolutely no protection in conflict zones has the International Community failed the children of the world. International community but also those parties that have already was off by the children of the world who are all these front lines because we have sighing the way that was it being fought with their hes known site place the children in these countries and that must change. How how do we change it. Well first of all there are bowls of war that explain if peace fails if people go to war stop fighting in there are things they must do to protect civilians and children as you have seen and so interest probably the most vulnerable of civilians have special protections under the rule some of these things a simple its completely outrageous to use a chop obviously in shield to turn a child it was a soldier or to force them into being a suicide bomber its completely improper an outrageous to deny Children Food and water and medicine and use them is getting chips in some kind of a struggle and its completely wrong that the children and families for example if it rock in syria this year had a horrible choice of risk in being shot by snipers is that a sky i saw in cities or in court explosive. Mine mine fields and bombing this coming against isis so. They call in the middle sometimes they targeted too often its complete disregard for protecting them in eighteen away bodies happening so if hes go to war they must do what they can or under their obligations to protect family sit ins and especially children thats carrying the wire whos with unicef joining us from new york thanks very much. Well here in germany a major meeting of hackers is underway with mass surveillance and Data Security among the key points of discussion. Europes biggest hacker collective the Chaos Computer Club is hosting the congress which is also looking closely at the spread of fake news online. Our reporter nina haas is at that Congress Earlier she spoke to one of the organizers of the event. Im not joined by if i catch one of the speakers of the Chaos Computer Club psych eval there has been a lot of talk about fake news its also a topic in some of the panels here what is your reaction to the term fake names. For us the term fake news doesnt really fit into the topic because were talking about news that are wrong so somehow displaced or mismatched and this is nothing that is actually new because we have seen that in the past so we know that even Classic Media produced wrong news in the past and the only difference is that. More and more people are producing those new